Urban Exploration: Paper Mill, Trenton Ohio, Excello Lock
In Trenton Ohio you can find an abandoned paper mill. This area is also known as Excello which is an unincorporated community in central Lemon Township, Butler County, Ohio. Additionally, this was the famous site of “The Excello Lock” which now protected by the Miami Conservancy. Next door to this lock, and who also used this lock to bring in raw materials was the Harding Paper Company which is now listed with the National Register of Historic Places.
A.E. Harding, founder of the Harding Paper Company, was born in England in 1829 to a family of papermakers. In 1865, Harding and his associates founded the Harding, Erwin & Company and constructed the first paper mill west of the Allegheny Mountains that manufactured fine writing paper… Initially, this mill had a capacity of 2,500 pounds of paper daily. By the 1970s, and a few ownership changes, the Harding-Jones Paper Company mill had a capacity of 44,000 pounds of paper per day. The plant was acquired by the Simpson Paper Company in 1983 and closed on April 30, 1990.
Ok, now that we have completed our history lesson we need to get in. We usually start out by knocking on the front door. Well, the door was open and nobody was home.

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Ryan Lawrence Manthey ( Lakewood Ohio)
Thank You Ryan, you are great.
Urban Exploration: Paper Mill, Trenton Ohio, Excello Lock